Atlantic Boulevard To Be Closed At Seaboard Crossing

Starting Monday, the Seaboard Systems Railroad crossing on Atlantic Boulevard just west of Interstate 95 will be closed to through traffic for two weeks while improvements are made to the crossing.

It will be closed until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, according to the state Department of Transportation.

During this period, Atlantic Boulevard will be open only to local traffic from Andrews Avenue to Powerline Road for access to and from businesses and homes.

Through traffic on Atlantic will be detoured north to Hammondville Road or south to Race Track Road during the two weeks.

Traffic exiting I-95 to Atlantic westbound should get off instead at Copans or Cypress Creek roads and go west to Powerline Road.

-- State Road 7, just south of Riverland Road, will be reduced from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction for two days, starting Tuesday.

The lane reduction is needed for the relocation of telephone cables in connection with the construction of Interstate 595.

Work will be done on each of the two days between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

-- Two new bridges from Federal Highway to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport are expected to open this week, but an exact day has not been announced.

-- University Drive will be narrowed from four lanes to two lanes between Northwest 61st Street and Commercial Boulevard in Tamarac for the next two weeks while workers install water and sewer lines.

-- Residents of the Orange Tree Lakes subdivision in Davie are complaining about a massive increase in traffic in their area caused by the closing of the intersection of State Road 84 and Southwest 130th Avenue.

They say it has caused traffic to be diverted along residential streets such as Southwest 10th Court and Southwest Ninth Place between Flamingo Road and Southwest 130th Avenue, turning them into busy thoroughfares.

-- This week, members of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department`s Selective Enforcement Team will patrol Davie Boulevard, between Interstate 95 and Southwest 31st Avenue, looking for speeders and other lawbreakers at rush hour, both mornings and evenings.

-- Broward County Transit will provide special round-trip express bus service again this year to the Broward County Fair. The buses will depart from seven shopping malls throughout the county, as well as from the main bus terminal in downtown Fort Lauderdale.

The first route will begin at Pompano Square and continue to Coral Ridge Mall, the Fort Lauderdale terminal, and to the fair.

The second will stop at Coral Square, Lauderdale Lakes Mall, Lauderhill Mall, and the fair.

The third route travels from Broward Mall to Hollywood Fashion Center, and then to the fair, continuing on to northern Dade County, where it will stop at the 163rd Street Shopping Center and the Aventura Mall before heading back to the fair.